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One long shot
Sniper team picks off an ISIS enemy at 3,871 yards. Tho I think the article over-simplifies Coriolis Effect.
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You must have extensive long-range rifle experience, Flight-ER-Doc. I only shot out to 1,000 yards, and only for 30 years, so I'll keep my opinions quiet.
A lot of the math in that article doesn't check out - for example, they call 6,705 inches of bullet drop, but that comes in somewhere closer to 5 seconds of bullet travel instead of the 7 they claim.
The person who wrote that article is an idiot. For example, he writes:
"A bullet begins to lose energy as soon as it leaves the muzzle of a gun, and as it loses energy it loses the ability to counteract gravity."
The ability to counteract gravity? Really? How can a bullet do this? If it can flying cars will be available in months!
And it just get worse from there.
Unlikely to be someone who actually shoots.
Unlikely to be anyone who had even high school physics.
Probably a "Journalist" with a "Communications Major" who wasn't required to take any class with math or science in the curriculum. Nor economics, but that's been obvious for years.
I also wonder if it was a one-shot engagement, or did they walk the rounds in.
And once is happenstance: Can they do it repeatedly?